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In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana
Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and
Confucianism during China's Song period (960–1279). Drawing on In
Essays on Assisting the Teaching written by Chan monk-scholar
Qisong (1007–1072), Arghirescu examines the influences between
the two traditions. In his writings, Qisong made the first
substantial efforts to compare the major dimensions of Confucian
and Chan Buddhist thought from a philosophical view, seeking to
establish a meaningful and influential intellectual and ethical
bridge between them. Arghirescu meticulously reveals a
"Confucianized" dimension of Qisong's thought, showing how he
revisited and reinterpreted Confucian terminology in his special
form of Chan aimed at his contemporary Confucian readers and
auditors "who do not know Buddhism." Qisong's form of
eleventh-century Chan, she argues, is unique in its cohesive or
nondual perspective on Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and other
philosophical traditions, which considers all of them to be
interdependent and to share a common root. Building Bridges between
Chan Buddhism and Confucianism is the first book to identify,
examine, and expand on a series of Confucian concepts and virtues
that were specifically identified and discussed from a Buddhist
perspective by a historical Buddhist writer. It represents a major
contribution in the comparative understanding of both traditions.
In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana
Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and
Confucianism during China's Song period (960–1279). Drawing on In
Essays on Assisting the Teaching written by Chan monk-scholar
Qisong (1007–1072), Arghirescu examines the influences between
the two traditions. In his writings, Qisong made the first
substantial efforts to compare the major dimensions of Confucian
and Chan Buddhist thought from a philosophical view, seeking to
establish a meaningful and influential intellectual and ethical
bridge between them. Arghirescu meticulously reveals a
"Confucianized" dimension of Qisong's thought, showing how he
revisited and reinterpreted Confucian terminology in his special
form of Chan aimed at his contemporary Confucian readers and
auditors "who do not know Buddhism." Qisong's form of
eleventh-century Chan, she argues, is unique in its cohesive or
nondual perspective on Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and other
philosophical traditions, which considers all of them to be
interdependent and to share a common root. Building Bridges between
Chan Buddhism and Confucianism is the first book to identify,
examine, and expand on a series of Confucian concepts and virtues
that were specifically identified and discussed from a Buddhist
perspective by a historical Buddhist writer. It represents a major
contribution in the comparative understanding of both traditions.
The study of religions is essential for understanding other
cultures, building a sense of belonging in a multicultural world
and fostering a global intercultural dialogue. Exploring Chinese
religions as one interlocutor in this dialogue, Diana Arghirescu
engages with Song-dynasty Confucian and Buddhist theoretical
developments through a detailed study of the original texts of the
Chan scholar-monk Qisong (1007-1072) and the Neo-Confucian master
Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Starting with these figures, she builds an
interpretive theory focusing on "ethical interrelatedness" and
proposes it as a theoretical tool for the study of the Chinese
religious traditions. By actively engaging with other contemporary
theories of religion and refusing to approach Chinese religions
with Western frameworks, Arghirescu's comparative perspective makes
it possible to uncover differences between the various Western and
Chinese cultural presuppositions upon which these theories are
built. As such, this book breaks new ground in the methodology of
religious studies, comparative philosophy and furthers our
understanding of the Confucian-Buddhist interaction.
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